Your favorite thinkers that exemplify the types

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So I was talking with a friend about some of my favorite thinkers throughout history and I began to wonder about what types they could've been.

Here's my partial list I came up with. Note that this is very incomplete because I don't have a lot of time and frankly don't have any idea as to a lot of peoples' types.

What about you guys? Who are your favorite thinkers and what were their types?

INTP:
Baruch Spinoza (philosopher)
Ludwig Boltzman (physicist)
Georg Cantor (mathematician)
Charles Darwin (biologist)
Kurt Goedel (mathematician)
Noam Chomsky (linguist)




Things I noticed: often isolated due to extreme hostility towards their ideas. Otherwise seem to be regarded as quiet, unassuming, and gentle types, if not a little eccentric. Generally way ahead of their times.



ENTP:
Bertrand Russell (philosopher)
Richard Feynman (physicist)
David Hume (philosopher)
Frank P. Ramsey (mathematician)
Buckminster Fuller (futurist)



Things I noticed: broad range of work, both scientific and humanistic, often contributing to multiple fields. Typically were seen as quick, talkative, clever, argumentative, but with a major silly streak.



ENTJ:
Richard Dawkins (biologist)
John von Neuman (mathematician)



Things I noticed: strong personas and tend to be very dogmatic and empirical.



INTJ:
Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher)
Stanley Kubrick (director)
John Maynard Keynes (economist)
Niels Bohr (physicist)



"Vision" types -- and by that I mean that they seem to have an odd idealized vision in their heads they try to create. Very serious and perfectionistic in their work.



INFP:
Arundhati Roy (author)
Albert Schweitzer (philosopher)



ENFP:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet)



INFJ:
Jane Goodall (anthropologist)
Herman Hesse (author)



ISFP:
Jean Jacques Rousseau (philosopher)
Fred Rogers (television host)

 

[chocolate]

Of those you listed, Feynman and Russell: didn't know the latter's type, but it figures! I tried reading a book by Dawkins, and didn't like his writing style (overly specific, didn't give me enough credit/room to think for myself), but that is interesting because my ENTJ brother loves his books (now I know why!).

I'll add: Timothy Gowers (mathematician), type=?

 

[FacetiousPersona]

I always thought Buckminster Fuller was an INTP.

 

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Jung!

 

[ViS]

ENFPs are the anthithesis of perfectionism.

 

[del]

I'll add: Timothy Gowers (mathematician), type=?

I'm actually not aware of his work. Mathematicians tend to be INTPs in my experience, however.

I see that he's still alive... we could just ask him, lol.

Jung!

There are several positions on this. Jung typed himself as an introverted thinker, which would mean INTP. But a lot modern Jungians think that he would be an INTJ in the Myers-Briggs system, because a lot was lost in translation from Jung -> MBTI.

Finally, there's some that think he was an INFJ -- mostly people who use Keirsey's modification of the MBTI.

Personally, I think he was INFJ, but I'm not really prepared to commit to a position.

ENFPs are the anthithesis of perfectionism.

The bit about "vision" and perfectionism was referring in INTJs. Sorry if there was confusion.

 

[ViS]

INFPs, ISFPs and INFJs are just as relatively perfectionistic. INFPs especially.

 

[Carnap]

Hume had a silly streak? hehe !

I so agree about Dawkins !

This is a great list. I love Spinoza, I wish I were motivated enough to write something so precise as his Ethics.

I can see what you mean about Nietzsche. I always gave him INTP, but you are right in what you say.

 

[Mars]

Socrates, apparently he was an INTP. woot.

 

[Anthile]

Goethe, Gandhi and Dostoevsky were INFJ too... at least, that's what the internet says.
Personally, I think that it makes sense.

 

[Enne]

Like Tesla and Newton (ENTPs), and Socrates (INTP). Yays.

 

[Devercia]

Confucius(Kong Fu Zi) (INFJ)

 

[shoeless]

ISFP -- henry david thoreau (i'm thinking anyway. just went over him in my english class, his life and habits and everything, and he screams ISFP to me.)

 

[bananaphallus]

Milton Friedman? E/INTJ? Kinda guessing.